 | 1714 - 528 sider
...Nonfenfe foi- my Lord. What woful Stuff this Madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd Hackney-Sonneteer, or me ? But let a Lord once own the happy Lines, How...Wit brightens ! How. the Style refines ! Before his ficred Name flies ev'iy Fault ; Arid each exalted -Stanza teems with Thought. Pope. Some piaifc at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 sider
...and1 carry nonfenfe for my Lord. What wofiil ftuff this madrigal would be, --' In fome ftarv'd hackny Sonneteer, or me? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! ; Before his facred'name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted Stanza teems with thought... | |
 | 1720 - 302 sider
...for my Lord. What woful fluff this madrigal -would i«. In fome Itarv'd hackny fonneteer, or me ? Bat let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the ftyle refines! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, t,2iK ' And each exalted Mania teems with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1722 - 294 sider
...carry nonfenfe for my Lord. What woeful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackny fonneteer, or me? But let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies ev'ry fault, And each exalted ftanza teems with thought... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 sider
...nonfenfe for my lord. 420; What woful ftuff this madrigal wouM be, In fome ftarved hackney fonneteer, or me ? But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens, how the ftyle refines! Before De ARTE CRITICA. 69 Scilicet, inque malam rem caetera turba jubentur. Fruftra... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 sider
...claim with our author, " What woful fluff this Madrigal would be, " In fome ftarv'd hackney fonneteer, or me ? " But let a lord once own the happy lines, " How the wit brightens, how the ftile refines ! Catalogue of " It is certain, fays the other, that his grace's compofitions ia N°bfAd... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 sider
...exclaim with our author, What woful fluff this madrigal would be, In fome ftarv'd hackney fonnetteer or me ? But let a LORD ONCE OWN the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the ftyle refines ! Before his facred name flies every fault, And each exalted flanza teems with thought.... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1773 - 620 sider
...fame. IV. Tranflation from Dante, Canto . \xxiii. By the Earl of Carlifle. 410. 19. Ridley. 1773. " Let a Lord once own the happy lines. How the wit brightens ! how the flyle refines !" So fays Pope ; but though we are always glad to find men of fafiiion cultivating the... | |
 | 1773 - 614 sider
...fame. IV. Tranflation from Dante, Canto xxxiii. By the Earl of Carlifle. 410. 1 3. Ridley. 1773. " Let a Lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! how the iiyle refines !" So fays Pope ; but though we are always glad to find men of faftion cultivating the... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 sider
...madrigal would be, In some starv'd hackney sonnetteer, or me? But let a lord once own the happy lines, 420 How the wit brightens ! how the- style refines ! Before his sacred name flies cv'ry fault, And each exalted stanza teems with thought! The vulgar thus thro' imitation err, As oft... | |
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In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me ! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens ! How the style refines Before his sacred name flies... 
